Calabar Poems - Poems about Calabar

Heartbreak dinner

...I had a girlfriend during my youth service,
She was then in love but still a novice,
After service, she was called to the bar,
Not long after she relocated to her town, Calabar.

I stayed back i...

Ruthless

...I called you my Ruth,
but you refused Ruth to Root
Your name is like a silver spoon,
but you prefer to be called back of a pot that is as dark as charcoal
You are Ruthless from birth
You have no...

Words of Young Generation - a Message To Nigerian Youth

...Please be informed: 

The Nigerian youths have agreed together in love and oneness that in 2023 presidential election and in every other elections, whether state or local government. We will not vo...

Mythical Beings

...We were told stories
Stories of the hunter demon
Haunting our children
In the dark of the moon

The faceless beast
A silhouette in the night
With a visage defined only
By juvenile imagination...

Behind the Cold Bars

...Poverty stricken,
Defrauding them was unintentional,
But the magistrate's judgement and sentence was constitutional.
We have been on the street,
Hustling, surviving but making money remains stric...

Your Heaven Is Cold Without Me

...All these years, you risked your life endlessly,
Protecting me from the cold world effortlessly.
You relied on my promises,
Kept me clean in my dirty premises,
Like a fetus, your love developed c...

A Generation of Strange Youths

...The sun shall rise again but
not in our season of songs this time, 
because we are strange to it glamouring light. 
We sparkle and shine not among its  Galaxy of hope, 
an unformidable corrupt yo...

Memories of the White Republic

...I remember my candles in the night
My eyes heavy but weightless like light
The thought of being a corper my right

A pound on my head boom boom
The thud of boots and whistle boomerang
Shrill cr...

He Lived

...In 1934,
The Big Drum of goodwill
Reeled out pleasant rhythms
To the people of the City of Aluu.
Unto us, a child is given;
Unto us, a warrior is born.
Not to interlock hands and arms
With gir...

Nigeria

...Author: Okechukwu Iroegbu
Title: Let them hear...

Let them hear...
From the hills of Isuikwuato
My sleepy hilly land'e
From my new'est bride Uyo
To the ancient muds of Enugu
From Makurdi's B...

Poisons

...Witches and warlocks gather around, 
will give you a list of poisons abound…

Arsenic, Hemlock, Belladonna you know…

Add to your list, these below;
Purple Foxglove; Black Hellebore;
 Deadly N...

Calabar

...Clean, green, and grassy
Goddesses in the streets
Atmosphere lost in lust
Tourists appetite satisfied by the goddesses
An army of palm-wine cascading from the Duke's town
The resurrection of Honesty ...

Brother

...Mother! Mother!! Mother!!!

Mighty you are with others,

Your son is in another man

Slavery.

 

Your beauty as wide as 23, 074.425 s.qkm

You lie between Latitude 4.29 north and

5.49 north equator...

Calabar

...Calabar, my birth place of adventure
The ebb of motherhood
There i originated
In your tropical forest was my image carved
Calabar, your beauty is taller than the palm trees
Your dogs barks in the gra...

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